Dominate the Country

Before Chen Ming arrived at Ruzhou City, he received the good news sent by Chen Jianbai's flying pigeon. Relying on the solid defense of Linru Town, the Independent Brigade fought against the Shaanxi soldiers led by Wang Tenglong for two days. They repeatedly defeated more with less, killing and wounding them. There were no less than 300 Qing soldiers, and 26 Qing soldiers were captured alive. There were very few casualties of its own.

Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua promised that their ability to protect Linru Town would not be lost. Let Chen Jianbai rest assured, let Governor Chen Ming rest assured!

Chen Ming, who was sitting on the boat on the Beiru River, smiled. With such strong confidence from Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua, it seemed that the independent brigade did really well in Linru Town. It's just that their troops are too few. If Wang Tenglong is really determined to fight, the Independence Brigade will not be able to hold on for long in Linru Town.

A group of Henan officials in Luoyang City had received news from the front line at this time. The aggressive Wang Tenglong was met with disgrace in Linru Town before he even encountered the large army of Chen family thieves. You must know that there are only more than 200 Chen family traitors in Linru Town, but the dignified Admiral Wang Tenglong has 8,000 Shaanxi soldiers under his command.

But how come these Shaanxi Green Camps, who were so arrogant a few days ago, are now asking the Henan government to recruit civilians to support the army? Wang Tenglong could no longer bear the casualties and had to use the shield car to push forward bit by bit.

After a series of battles in two days, Wang Tenglong was able to confirm that there were indeed not many Chen family soldiers in front of him. However, Chen Jiajun's defenses were too strong, and their firepower was also quite powerful. If they just rushed and attacked, even if they captured the small town in front of them, the casualties would be too high, which would damage the morale of the army. So he thought of playing slow and steady, and thought of the shield car.

For firearms warfare, the shield car is like a universal magic weapon that will always be useful.

Whether it's to protect one's own side or to prevent the other side.

In the 18th century, when firearms had not yet matured, thick and strong shield vehicles could block guns and withstand cannons. On the Chinese battlefield, as long as it is not a heavy artillery of several kilograms, one hit can only paralyze the shield vehicle at most, rather than completely falling apart.

Linru Town is not large in area, and there are parapets and bunkers on the outside. Wang Tenglong came to Xinlai and realized that he had really underestimated Chen Jiajun. The Linru Town in front of us is a vulnerable grass nest. It is an iron walnut. Even if the Shaanxi soldiers have to bite it in one bite, they will have to break two teeth.

He didn't care much about the casualties of his Green Camp soldiers, but as a veteran, Wang Tenglong knew that too many deaths of soldiers would seriously affect the morale of the team. So now he is surrounding Linru Town and not attacking. He is asking the officials at the rear to send civilians up to prepare for the shield car formation. In addition, he is sending teams into Yiyang and the first county of Ruzhou. As for what to do there is no need. Too much to say.

For two days in a row, the morale of the Qing soldiers rose to its peak at a speed visible to the naked eye. Of course, Wang Tenglong also received news that a large group of thieves were heading towards Linru Town.

Chen Ming led the cavalry battalion past the ruins of a village. The atmosphere of the entire team was quite gloomy. Soldiers passing like a grate, Chen Ming has seen what it means. The general's intentional connivance and the Shaanxi soldiers' inner tension and anger were vented. Of course, this was also due to the fact that they were located in a foreign province. The Qing soldiers released by Wang Tenglong were like hungry wolves destroying everything they encountered.

The Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps were certainly synonymous with elites during the Qing Dynasty, but they were also synonymous with the corruption of military discipline. In other words, during the Qing Dynasty, among all the armies that could fight, there was no one that loved the people like their own children. Including the Hunan Army, Huai Army, etc.

Chen Ming deliberately let his troops walk past the destroyed villages one after another, letting them listen to the cries of the survivors in the villages, so that the anger in their hearts would accumulate and be ignited little by little.

The most popular description of the Qing soldiers in the Tatar opera that was popular among Chen Jiajun was their animal nature. When the Manchus entered the customs, the brutal massacres were a perfect match for the scenes in front of them. Immediately most of the Chen Jiajun soldiers believed in the authenticity of the Tatar opera.

Chen Ming could see the burning flames in their eyes, which was the boiling anger in the hearts of the Chen family's soldiers.

The Qing army camp in front of Linru Town. Wang Tenglong's admiral's tent was filled with officers from the Green Camp, and what they were discussing was of course the upcoming Chen Jiajun.

The Qing Dynasty's scouting report said that the Chen family's army was feared to number four to five thousand people. All the officers present realized that the Chen family's army, which was about to arrive at Linru Town, was the main force of the rebel army. After defeating this army, Chen Jiajun will no longer be able to live like a grasshopper after autumn.

However, the Shaanxi soldiers fought several battles with Linru Town, and all the officers had a "new" impression of Chen Jiajun. The Chen family's thieves in the town opposite were capable of fighting and dared to fight. Although the Qing soldiers were the main attackers in several battles, as long as there was a chance to defend, the Chen family's army would launch a pursuit amidst sharp whistles and bugles.

According to the reactions of the soldiers on the battlefield, the shotguns in the hands of the Chen family thieves were tipped. After firing, they could charge directly with the shotguns, and all of them had iron armor on their skins. This kind of scene that I actually saw in the battle was much more shocking than just hearing it with my ears. Although there were 8,000 Qing soldiers, none of them had armor. The entire Shaanxi Green Camp had no armor. Only the flag soldiers stationed in Xi'an City and Tongguan City had pieces of cotton armor.

"This is impossible. There are four to five thousand soldiers. If everyone wears armor, how can the Chen family's thieves get so many armors? It's less than a year since they started fighting last year. How can they create so many soldiers?" Xue Zong, the deputy general of Tongguan Xie, said in a firm tone, and Deleng'e, the deputy general of the Xi'an City garrison opposite him, also agreed with his face.

Wang Tenglong sat in the main seat, his face expressionless, but he nodded secretly in his mind. It would be too terrifying if four or five thousand bandits were all equipped with armor. With the power of the Chen family, even if they captured Ruzhou and other places, they could gather blacksmiths to make weapons and armor. It would be very remarkable to produce hundreds of armors in a year. It was absurd for four or five thousand people to all wear armor.

Since Wang Tenglong failed to capture Linru Town, he regarded the independent brigade as the elite of the Chen family army. Henan Prefecture reported that the independent brigade was a miscellaneous unit in the Chen family army. Wang Tenglong also thought so at first, but the reality made him furious. He personally wrote a letter to scold the governor of Henan Prefecture and shouted that he would report him.

Wang Tenglong did not think that the Chen family army in Linru Town was a miscellaneous unit. During the two days of the battle, the fighting spirit and weapons of the Chen family army were far superior to those of the state-run troops such as the Green Camp of Shaanxi. If this was still a ragtag group of the Chen family army, then the Chen family army was the reincarnation of the Qi family army and the Yue family army. Wang Tenglong did not forget that the chief general of the Chen family army was one of the two chiefs of the rebellion army, and he was just a young man who was not even eighteen years old!

"Then we will wait for them here in Linru Town. All units should be prepared to fight at any time. When the bandits arrive, we will press on with a large army. Force the bandits to fight us in the field.

Outside Linru Town, under the eyes of the bandits in Linru Town, we will completely defeat the main force of the bandits in one battle, and then Linru Town may be able to fall without a fight..."